TONIGHT AT 7: NYC’s Merchant’s House Museum Holds Abolitionist History

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By Katie Vasquez

For nearly 100 years, two generations of the wealthy Tredwell family were oblivious to a secret inside their fashionable Manhattan row home that, during the 1800s, could have put them under suspicion of hiding fugitive slaves.